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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:08:06
Message-Id: en437t$i28$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18? by James
1 On 2006-12-29, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 >> I'm currently testing an 8.28.8-r1 ebuild. Once I'm confident
4 >> I haven't broken anything, I'll post it.
5 >
6 > I have a ATI 1900 card:
7 >
8 > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Primary
9 > 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] Secondary
10 >
11 > Let me know where you post and I test your ebuild/overlay.
12
13 Don't the newer versions of ati drivers work with that card?
14 Are you sure you want to use such an old version of the driver?
15
16 > Do put up some brief instructions, since abondoning the radeon
17 > driver, I've not been able to get anything but a black screen
18 > out of the ati-binary driver, with any number of kernels I've
19 > tried.
20
21 There are detailed instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers
22
23 > What's your entry for that 9200 card in the make.conf?
24
25 VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev fglrx"
26
27 > Can you send me the relevant portions of the xorg.conf file?
28
29 For what it's worth, here's my xorg.conf file....
30
31 ________________________________________________________________________
32 Section "ServerLayout"
33 Identifier "X.org Configured"
34 Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
35 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
36 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
37 EndSection
38
39 Section "Files"
40 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
41 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
42 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
43 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"
44 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
45 FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
46 EndSection
47
48 Section "Module"
49 Load "extmod"
50 Load "dri"
51 Load "glx"
52 Load "dbe"
53 Load "record"
54 Load "xtrap"
55 Load "type1"
56 Load "freetype"
57 EndSection
58
59 Section "InputDevice"
60 Identifier "Keyboard0"
61 Driver "kbd"
62 EndSection
63
64 Section "ServerFlags"
65 option "AIGLX" "off"
66 EndSection
67
68 Section "InputDevice"
69 Identifier "Mouse0"
70 Driver "mouse"
71 Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
72 Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
73 Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
74 EndSection
75
76 Section "Monitor"
77 Identifier "Monitor0"
78 VendorName "NEC"
79 ModelName "Multisync 97F"
80 DisplaySize 386 289
81 HorizSync 31.5 - 79.0
82 VertRefresh 50.0 - 90.0
83 EndSection
84
85 Section "Monitor"
86 Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
87 Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
88 Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
89 Option "DPMS" "true"
90 EndSection
91
92 Section "Device"
93
94 # Driver "fglrx"
95 Identifier "Card0"
96 Driver "ati"
97 VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
98 BoardName "Radeon RV280 [Radeon 9200]"
99 Option "mtrr" "off"
100 BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
101 EndSection
102
103 Section "Device"
104 Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
105 Driver "fglrx"
106 EndSection
107
108 Section "Screen"
109 Identifier "Screen0"
110 Device "Card0"
111 Monitor "Monitor0"
112 DefaultDepth 24
113 SubSection "Display"
114 Virtual 1280 1024
115 Depth 8
116 EndSubSection
117 SubSection "Display"
118 Virtual 1280 1024
119 Depth 15
120 EndSubSection
121 SubSection "Display"
122 Virtual 1280 1024
123 Depth 16
124 EndSubSection
125 SubSection "Display"
126
127 # Virtual 1024 768
128 Virtual 1280 1024
129 Depth 24
130 EndSubSection
131 EndSection
132
133 Section "Screen"
134 Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
135 Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
136 Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
137 DefaultDepth 24
138 SubSection "Display"
139 Virtual 1280 1024
140 Viewport 0 0
141 Depth 24
142 EndSubSection
143 EndSection
144
145 Section "DRI"
146 Mode 0666
147 EndSection
148 ________________________________________________________________________
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